Solis Glacier
Location of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands.
Solis Glacier (on the right) from Camp Academia, with Huron Glacier and McFarlane Strait in the foreground.
Topographic map of Livingston Island, Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands.
Solis Glacier is a glacier on Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica extending 2.8 km in southeast-northwest direction and 1.8 km in southwest-northeast direction and draining the north slopes of Breznik Heights to flow northwestwards into Yankee Harbour.
The feature was named by the 1952-53 Chilean Antarctic Expedition after a member of the party that made a hydrographic survey of Yankee Harbour.
Location
The glacier is centred at 62°31′30″S 59°43′24″W / 62.52500°S 59.72333°W (Bulgarian mapping in 2005 and 2009).
Maps
- L.L. Ivanov et al. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich Island, South Shetland Islands. Scale 1:100000 topographic map. Sofia: Antarctic Place-names Commission of Bulgaria, 2005.
- L.L. Ivanov. Antarctica: Livingston Island and Greenwich, Robert, Snow and Smith Islands. Scale 1:120000 topographic map. Troyan: Manfred Wörner Foundation, 2009. ISBN 978-954-92032-6-4
